All Building articles in 2000 issue 42 – Page 2
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Features
Arup picks wobbly bridge solution
Engineer Arup has chosen its preferred solution to curb the wobble on the Millennium Bridge across the Thames. The preferred solution, to be revealed in a report next week, is understood to consist of a passive damping system mounted beneath the deck of the £18m bridge, plus secondary bracing added ...
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Arup picks wobbly bridge solution
Engineer Arup has chosen its preferred solution to curb the wobble on the Millennium Bridge across the Thames.The preferred solution, to be revealed in a report next week, is understood to consist of a passive damping system mounted beneath the deck of the £18m bridge, plus secondary bracing added at ...
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Now arrived from Brussels
The big red-tape machine in Brussels is still churning out directives for our benefit. But do they work? And are you affected?
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Appointments
Contractors Engineer and contractor Black & Veatch has appointed Doug Smith managing director of its European infrastructure business. He also becomes managing director of its UK business Binnie Black & Veatch.EBC Group has appointed Richard Smith area director for Reading. Nigel McArthur has been promoted to director responsible ...
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Roving union officials set to inspect any site
Contractors alarmed at Prescott-backed plan to give unions swingeing safety powers.
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Roving union officials set to inspect any site
Contractors alarmed at Prescott-backed plan to give unions swingeing safety powers.
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Anderson quits Bovis Lend Lease
Bovis director leaves job with Australian contractor to join Land Securities' property division six months after taking up new role.
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Amey's detention centre captures top spot
One £80m immigrant processing centre wins the September stakes but HBG stays on top of annual league.
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All gas and gaiters
So, the fuel crisis gives contractors the chance to secure extensions of time, does it? No, it doesn't, because the truck drivers' actions do not clearly come under "relevant events".
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As bad as all that?
Prime contracting is the MOD's attempt to apply Rethinking Construction. But contractors have complained loudly that it transfers too much risk to them. So, is it going to be Egan-compliant?
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Portal to aim at housebuilders
Mercadium, a new e-commerce venture, is targeting UK housebuilders as the first clients to sign up to its construction portal. Director Jerome Losson said the firm saw this group as the ideal first users of the portal as they were likely to make use of the whole range of services ...
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Cyril Sweett buys again
Construction consultant Cyril Sweett has completed its second South-west takeover in quick succession by acquiring Bristol QS Banks Wood & Partners. All of Banks Wood's seven staff, including its partner, Gregg Mannell, will be joining Sweett. This brings the number of surveyors and project managers at Sweett's Bristol office up ...
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Built Environment 2001
The Builder Group, publisher of Building, has joined forces with United Business Media to stage a major new exhibition aimed at key specifiers across design and construction. Built Environment 2001 is being staged next October at the ExCel complex in the Royal Docks in east London, and is already billed ...
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